Scoundrels Quotes - Page 6

• If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Strong, Fighting, Opponents

  "Sharon’s Last Option". Interview with Jennifer Byrne, www.counterpunch.org. November 16, 2002.

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• Scoundrels are always sociable.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Human Condition, Sociable

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• If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.

  Joseph Murphy

  Spiritual, Peace, Mean

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.163, Penguin

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• Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Lasts, Refuge

  Song: Sweetheart Like You, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Peace, Long, Tea

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.189, Youcanprint

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• With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Grateful, Men, Secret

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• Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

  Albert Einstein

  Tyrants, Violence, Moral

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

  Paul Gauguin

  People, Different, Would Be

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

  Franz Liszt

  Tired, Artist, Greatness

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• Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

  Robert Genn

  Titles, Add, Lasts

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• They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.

  Dean Burk

  Lying

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• We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

  Jacques Barzun

  Integrity, Passion, Artist

  Jacques Barzun's preface to the 3rd edition of his book "Berlioz and the Romantic Century", 1969.

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• It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ungrateful People, Obligation, Misfortunes

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• Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Believe, Compassion, Lasts

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• Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

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• An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

  William Nordhaus

  Want, Way, Economist

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• Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Patriotism, Firsts, Resorts

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• What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Patriotism, Would Be, Ready

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• Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Patriotism, Ethics

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.350, Courier Corporation

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• I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Long

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• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.

  Doc Holliday

  Self, Ignorant, Dave

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• To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul . . . because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Country, Children, Hypocrite

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• Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

  Philip Wylie

  Wise, Cheer, Men

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• No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.

  H. L. Mencken

  Trust, Believe, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.10, Vintage

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